Pennsylvania air quality

Audubon, Pennsylvania Air Quality

Montgomery County40.128, -75.432

The nearest monitor to Audubon, at Norristown, 7 miles away, measured an index of 16 at Wed, 9:00 AM EDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection forecasts Good for Philadelphia today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
16 · Good
Today
34 · Good
Tomorrow
38 · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Audubon, Pennsylvania. Open it for the live map, where it pans and zooms.

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Audubon, Pennsylvania Open the live map with the particulate forecast

Map layer from NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Alerts in force

An Air Quality Alert is issued by the National Weather Service on behalf of a state or local agency when pollution is expected to reach a level that harms health. An Air Stagnation Advisory means the air will not move enough to clear what is already in it.

None are in force near Audubon right now. All Pennsylvania warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Norristown, 7 miles away (site 420910013)
Index measured
16 · Good
Measured at
Wed, 9:00 AM EDT
Fine particles
2.3 µg/m³
Ozone
15 ppb
Reporting area
Philadelphia, PA, 19 miles away
Reported by
Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection
Area index
29 · Good

Measured, not modeled. AirNow observations are preliminary until the operating agency certifies them, which happens months later.

Today and tomorrow

Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection's own forecast for Philadelphia, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood34PM2.5
TomorrowGood38PM2.5
Friday, September 25GoodPM2.5

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection for Philadelphia and filed with AirNow.

Current Conditions at 3 p.m. EDT this Tuesday afternoon: Light rain and drizzle persists with overcast skies in parts of the area. A brisk northeasterly flow of clean air has kept fine particle (PM2.5) and ozone concentrations rather low. While concentrations of these pollutants may increase some over the next few days, good air quality is expected. Here are the forecast details: *** Wednesday’s forecast: Clouds will break for a little sun Wednesday as high temperatures move to the upper 60s with the little added sun. Breezy northeast winds will maintain good air quality across the region. *** Extended forecast: High pressure will keep things dry Thursday through most of Saturday. A coastal low may retrograde enough (that is, move westward) enough to possibly influence our weather with more cloudiness and perhaps a shower or two late Saturday into Sunday. Strong mixing should allow good air quality to continue Thursday into the weekend.---McAuliffe

Hour by hour

NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability, bias-corrected against monitors, for this town’s own coordinate. The worst hour ahead is an index of 35, Good, around Thu, 9:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Wed, 2:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Wed, 4:00 AM EDT3Good0.5
Wed, 5:00 AM EDT3Good0.5
Wed, 6:00 AM EDT3Good0.6
Wed, 7:00 AM EDT3Good0.6
Wed, 8:00 AM EDT2Good0.3
Wed, 9:00 AM EDT3Good0.6
Wed, 10:00 AM EDT12Good1.213.8
Wed, 11:00 AM EDT12Good1.313.3
Wed, 12:00 PM EDT12Good1.113.6
Wed, 1:00 PM EDT13Good114.9
Wed, 2:00 PM EDT15Good1.316.9
Wed, 3:00 PM EDT18Good2.419.6
Wed, 4:00 PM EDT21Good1.723.1
Wed, 5:00 PM EDT24Good1.526.3
Wed, 6:00 PM EDT26Good1.228.7
Wed, 7:00 PM EDT27Good1.830
Wed, 8:00 PM EDT28Good3.330.4
Wed, 9:00 PM EDT27Good2.329.8
Wed, 10:00 PM EDT26Good2.628
Wed, 11:00 PM EDT23Good2.125.6
Thu, 12:00 AM EDT20Good1.822.6
Thu, 1:00 AM EDT18Good1.219.8
Thu, 2:00 AM EDT16Good0.717.8
Thu, 3:00 AM EDT15Good0.516.6
Thu, 4:00 AM EDT14Good115.7
Thu, 5:00 AM EDT13Good1.114.9
Thu, 6:00 AM EDT13Good1.314.7
Thu, 7:00 AM EDT13Good1.214.3
Thu, 8:00 AM EDT12Good1.213.9
Thu, 9:00 AM EDT13Good1.514.2
Thu, 10:00 AM EDT13Good1.414.9
Thu, 11:00 AM EDT14Good1.315.8
Thu, 12:00 PM EDT15Good1.216.8
Thu, 1:00 PM EDT17Good1.418.3
Thu, 2:00 PM EDT19Good2.220.5
Thu, 3:00 PM EDT21Good3.523.5
Thu, 4:00 PM EDT25Good2.227.1
Thu, 5:00 PM EDT28Good3.230.5
Thu, 6:00 PM EDT31Good3.233.5
Thu, 7:00 PM EDT32Good3.235.9
Thu, 8:00 PM EDT34Good3.737.3
Thu, 9:00 PM EDT35Good3.138.2
Thu, 10:00 PM EDT34Good3.837.9
Thu, 11:00 PM EDT33Good3.736.6
Fri, 12:00 AM EDT31Good3.334.5
Fri, 1:00 AM EDT30Good3.232.3
Fri, 2:00 AM EDT27Good2.729.9
Fri, 3:00 AM EDT25Good2.527.5
Fri, 4:00 AM EDT23Good2.525.4
Fri, 5:00 AM EDT21Good2.723.1
Fri, 6:00 AM EDT19Good3.421.3
Fri, 7:00 AM EDT18Good319.6
Fri, 8:00 AM EDT17Good3.118.4
Fri, 9:00 AM EDT18Good3.617.5
Fri, 10:00 AM EDT17Good3.217.3
Fri, 11:00 AM EDT17Good2.718
Fri, 12:00 PM EDT18Good2.319.8
Fri, 1:00 PM EDT19Good1.921.9
Fri, 2:00 PM EDT22Good1.424.5
Fri, 3:00 PM EDT25Good1.327.1
Fri, 4:00 PM EDT27Good0.529.8
Fri, 5:00 PM EDT29Good0.331.9
Fri, 6:00 PM EDT31Good0.433.2
Fri, 7:00 PM EDT31Good0.633.6
Fri, 8:00 PM EDT30Good132.6
Fri, 9:00 PM EDT29Good1.631.7
Fri, 10:00 PM EDT28Good2.430.2
Fri, 11:00 PM EDT26Good2.728.5
Sat, 12:00 AM EDT24Good2.926.5
Sat, 1:00 AM EDT22Good324.2
Sat, 2:00 AM EDT19Good321.9

Fine particles in micrograms per cubic meter, ozone in parts per billion as an 8-hour average. The index for each hour is EPA’s: the ozone figure is already the 8-hour average the ozone index is defined on, and the particle figure is run through EPA’s NowCast, which is how an hourly PM2.5 concentration becomes an index.

Smoke

NOAA’s analysts have not drawn smoke over Audubon in satellite imagery today.

NOAA’s model forecasts no measurable smoke near the ground here over the next two days.

Smoke on the radar over Audubon

What this means

Good

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Who is affected
Nobody is expected to be affected.
What to do
It is a good day to be outside.
Index range
0 to 50

Category descriptions are the Environmental Protection Agency’s own.

What these numbers are. An index beside a monitor’s name is a measurement, published hourly by AirNow and preliminary until the operating agency certifies it. A category for today or tomorrow is a state or local agency forecaster’s own forecast for a reporting area. An hourly index is NOAA’s air quality model on a five-kilometer grid, not a reading from any instrument. Where a town has no monitor within reach, only the model figures appear, and the page says so.

Nearby

The nearest towns with a page of their own, closest first.

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Sources

Observations and daily forecasts from AirNow, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s program with NOAA, the National Park Service, NASA, tribal, state and local agencies. Hourly forecasts from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability. Smoke analysis from NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System. Alerts from the National Weather Service. Index categories and breakpoints are EPA’s, as revised in 2024.